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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7880484" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Again, might be fascinating from a philosophical angle. </p><p></p><p>But, if I am playing a game with friends in the context of a single year and I tell them "the rules will randomly change" and then the rules never change, do you think they will buy "Well, we just happened to have an unusually long period of consistency, that can randomly happen."? </p><p></p><p>I doubt it. </p><p></p><p>And, we aren't even discussing this as observers within the universe, to whom the timescale might actually matter, we are viewing this as the ones writing the laws of the universe. </p><p></p><p>To make a less philosophical point. Let us say I write in my notes "The Flower of Dawn will never bloom, even via Wish magic." Then, I include lore and fluff about how the flower might bloom, about what people think will happen when the flower blooms. From the point of view of someone within that world, it makes for interesting pieces of lore connected to this famous landmark. To us as observers outside of the world, it is all a giant lie. The Flower will never bloom. There is nothing that will make it bloom, there is nothing that will happen as a result of that. No matter how interesting the story inside the world is, outside of the world the story is really about the delusions and beliefs of these people, not about the flower blooming. </p><p></p><p>And thus it feels with your angle on this. Yes, we can say "Chaos changes its laws when it feels like it, and it could happen at any time for any length of time, and create anything" but if we never write in changes to those laws, if instead we keep Chaos static and acting like everything else, then we are simply lying. Because chaos isn't going to change and do something different, because we aren't writing it doing anything different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7880484, member: 6801228"] Again, might be fascinating from a philosophical angle. But, if I am playing a game with friends in the context of a single year and I tell them "the rules will randomly change" and then the rules never change, do you think they will buy "Well, we just happened to have an unusually long period of consistency, that can randomly happen."? I doubt it. And, we aren't even discussing this as observers within the universe, to whom the timescale might actually matter, we are viewing this as the ones writing the laws of the universe. To make a less philosophical point. Let us say I write in my notes "The Flower of Dawn will never bloom, even via Wish magic." Then, I include lore and fluff about how the flower might bloom, about what people think will happen when the flower blooms. From the point of view of someone within that world, it makes for interesting pieces of lore connected to this famous landmark. To us as observers outside of the world, it is all a giant lie. The Flower will never bloom. There is nothing that will make it bloom, there is nothing that will happen as a result of that. No matter how interesting the story inside the world is, outside of the world the story is really about the delusions and beliefs of these people, not about the flower blooming. And thus it feels with your angle on this. Yes, we can say "Chaos changes its laws when it feels like it, and it could happen at any time for any length of time, and create anything" but if we never write in changes to those laws, if instead we keep Chaos static and acting like everything else, then we are simply lying. Because chaos isn't going to change and do something different, because we aren't writing it doing anything different. [/QUOTE]
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